@arachnepress.bsky.social
Small independent, inclusive, award-winning UK publishing house. Mostly poetry and short fiction, with the occasional fantasy/sci-fi novel. Prioritising LGBTQ+, Global Majority, Disabled, geographically isolated and Older Women writers.
We may have mentioned we are #crowdfunding our next book an epically slow start means we've barely reached 19% with abt 10 days to go. no funds=no book. #ecopoetry and meetings with dead #poets in the lungs of London www.kickstarter.com/projects/147... pls share and help if you can
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Hannah Hull talking about Home is a place that visits me at @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social poetry salon last Saturday in #museuminthepark #stroud. Thanks to #dialectpress for organising .
Up next free online launch this Thursday 6thOct 7pm www.outsavvy.com/event/29667/... @inpressbooks.bsky.social
That is absolutely lovely, thank you. And thanks @emmalee1.bsky.social
05.10.2025 07:58 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0The brilliant @arachnepress.bsky.social has been spotlighted for #IndieLitMagGala 2025βa solo-run powerhouse publishing inclusive, radical, community-rooted work since 2012.
Massive thanks to @emmalee1.bsky.social for the nominationβthis oneβs richly deserved.
Read here: thebrokenspine.co.uk...
elegant hornbeam trees in early summer well-spaced and with sun filtering onto the earth, making shadows.
book cover, an impressionistic oil sketch of an ancient tree in a misty background wording reads Meeting John Clare at High Beach, Michael Shann
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we are #CROWDFUNDING! in Meeting #JohnClare at #HighBeach #poet Michael Shann writes of the trees, history & people of ancient #EppingForest from #Boudicca to #AlfredHitchcock. Help us bring this book to fruition. www.kickstarter.com/projects/147...
turns out the video is too big... I'll post it on our website arachnepress.com/recent-news/ just give me a minute!
30.09.2025 10:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0new #poem video from michael shann in #EppingForest from his #poetry collection Meeting John Clare at High Beach. we are #crowdfunding & could REALLY use help spreading the word. No funds=no book. @eefnews.bsky.social @inpressbooks.bsky.social @walthamstowlife.bsky.social @eppingforest.bsky.social
30.09.2025 10:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Diolch/Many thanks to the judges+team @forwardprizes.bsky.social for including Naming the Trees as highly commended.π Inspired by the campaign to save Penrhos Nature Reserve from being developed. Here's my copy in the leaf wave+rustle of where it beganπ³π @arachnepress.bsky.social @nation.cymru
28.09.2025 10:05 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0An Epping Forest video from MichaelΒ Shann
Β Meeting John Clare at High Beach by Michael Shann Poems from Epping Forest Here's a video from the poet Michael Shann of him reading the title poem, at High Beach. The Crowdfunder is LIVE on Kickstarter for the next 28 days. You won't find any other infoβ¦
Help us crowd fund our nextΒ book
Meet Meeting John Clare at High Beach by Michael Shann Poems from Epping Forest Michael Shann lives close to Epping Forest and walks, runs and cycles there regularly. Epping Forest is ancient woodland, and has a history to match. Meeting John Clare at High Beachβ¦
hand made crowd funding rewards for Meeting John Clare at HighΒ Beach
Crowdfunding is something we rather hate to have to do, but it does at least provide an opportunity to have a bit of creative play in the process. Second guessing what funders might be interested in, apart from the actual book,β¦
Submission call live for UP//ROAR POEMS OF QUEERΒ RESISTANCE
Following the success ofΒ Joy//Us,Β we are preparing another queer poetry anthology.Β Up//Roar: Poems of Queer Resistance.Β Jeremy Dixon and Cherry Potts are editing again, and we feel that the world has taken a dramatic turn for the worse,β¦
Home is a place that visits me Launch Events and more AfonyddΒ readings
Home is a place that visits me by Hannah Hull will be out on 25th September. You can still pre-order and get the book just before it hits the streets. It is a marvellously strange book, illustrated and quirky, alarming andβ¦
we are #CROWDFUNDING! in Meeting John Clare at High Beach poet Michael Shann writes of the trees, history & people of ancient Epping Forest from Boudicca to Alfred Hitchcock. Help us bring this book to fruition. www.kickstarter.com/projects/147...
@eppingforest.bsky.social
@johnclare.bsky.social
Thanks!
21.09.2025 07:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Saturday 04/10/2026
2-4pm
IPN Poetry Salon at Museum in the Park, Stroud, Hannah Hull is reading from Home is a place that visits me alongside Afonydd poets Des Mannay & Iris Anne Lewis, plus poets from other member publisers.
Free tix www.dialect.org.uk/coursesworks...
Saturday 04/10/2026
10:30-12:00
Wirral Poetry Festival hosts Afonydd poets Sian Northey, SiΓ΄n Aled Owen, & Robbie Burton at Bebington Library, Civic Way Bebington Wirral CH63 7PN
free, no booking required
book cover in gret writing in white says home is a place that visits me Hannah Hull Arachne Press. smudgy lopsided black drawings of houses in 3 rows
online #booklaunch Home is a place that visits me Debut #poetry by #hannahhull 9thOct 7pm FREE but PLEASE book to get the link www.outsavvy.com/event/29667/...
part poetry, part graphic novel, part autofiction. free music download with books purchased at this event
cartoony rather sad looking pink tiger face
We are preparing a new UK/RoI #queerpoetry anthology. Up//Roar: Poems of Queer Resistance.
call out is live until 1st Nov. arachnepress.submittable.com/submit/33689...
pls share with any #queerpoets you know
@hazardpressuk.bsky.social is editing with me
@mxfrankduffy.bsky.social is doing cover
as summer gets washed away into autumn, it is the last weekend of our 'Hot Weather' #Sale. Pick #books from the special selection at arachnepress.com/Hot-Weather-... and use the code HOT at the checkout. Finishes 31st August.
#poetry #childrensbooks #sff #shortfiction
Hot Weather sale use code HOT at checkout, SALE ENDS 31st AUGUST #poetry #fantasy #shortfiction whether you are a hide in the shade or a bask in the sun reader, something for everyone... arachnepress.com/Hot-Weather-...
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Heads up! an unusual #booklaunch for Hannah Hunter Hull's Home is a place that visits me - with an #Artistfilm and #Q&A with @clareshawpoet.bsky.social at
Workshop 21 Water Street Todmorden OL14 5AB
FRIDAY 26th SEPTEMBER 7-9pm Tix Β£8/Β£5 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/home-is-a-...
Day 15 Sealey Challege - Afonydd: Poems for Welsh Rivers, Arachne Press
A poem by @tigerbaynatasha.bsky.social
#poetry #writing
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The cover, depicting two magpies and a beaming sun, of the Joy//US anthology from Arachne Press
I received a royalty from sales of the JOY//US anthology, in which I have a poem, @arachnepress.bsky.social
That's right. Money. From poetry.
The royalty was just enough to buy a fancy sandwich at Foyles, but given the prices in there, that's quite impressive.
arachnepress.com/JOY-US-poems...
@sealeychallenge.bsky.social day 11 Arachne Press, A470: Poems for the Road.
Super poetic work in this anthology.
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arachnepress.com/books/poetry...
Our Hot Weather Sales is still on - until the end of August. we live in hope the weather will buck up a bit, wearing a jumper while typing this!
If you are doing the #thesealeychallenge over August, grab some poetry books half price! arachnepress.com/Hot-Weather-... use code HOT at checkout
our hot weather sale continues... Use the code HOT at checkout. sale includes fiction titles by #cherrypotts #liamhogan @davidhartley.bsky.social #lilypeters and a profusion of anthology contributors arachnepress.com/Hot-Weather-...
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Making me more than a little homesick. Diolch yn fawr.
forget prime - buy poetry in our HOT weather sale - 50% with code HOT cool books for hot weather arachnepress.com/Hot-Weather-... highlighting poets with books in the sale: including @emmalee1.bsky.social @sarahleavesley.bsky.social #annemacaulay #adriennesilcock @inpressbooks.bsky.social
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